“I look out the front door, and to the left is the rest of the world. To the right, not really,” said Gieves & Hawkes’s creative director, Jason Basmajian, this evening. What now? Well, G&H is located, highly reputably, at 1 Savile Row (it is more than 200 years old, after all)—arguably the most mythicized address in the world for menswear. To the left, the scene wraps away into popular and perma-trafficked Regent Street, and to the right, ahem, more Savile Row. But that’s not to imply that Basmajian wants distance from his brand’s heritage. Rather, he sees the view as symbolic: “I want to keep a British accent, but speak an international language,” he said.

The outcome was excellent. The codes of his home street were all clearly enunciated—luxurious fabrications, masterful tailoring, gentlemanly assurance—but on top of them was a patois of comfortable, cool, usable, and assiduously chic ideas. See: a chunky cable-knit under a shawl-collared tuxedo jacket, with a lug sole shoe and a slightly shorter pant (experimentation with tuxedos could at this point be called a micro-trend in London—some have been more successful than others). See also: a heather brown single-breasted topcoat over another knit, again with a trimmed trouser. Those pieces, among a majority of the others, worked as well as they did because they offered a rare confluence of easygoing conviction with exactitude for a man to whom trends don’t matter, but looking good does. That’s it, simply. And, with his own sort of confidence, Basmajian sounded off: “He’s not settling down. He’s settling in.”